This phone can bring you back to those days. However, they’ve replaced the dial with convenient push buttons to make your ringy dingy’s just a wee bit less tactile. It’ll still look great on the kitchen wall.

The Crosley 302 Phone returns to the wall in this Henry Dreyfuss tribute. Dreyfuss, considered a brilliant industrial designer, worked with Bell Telephone Laboratories designing telephones that were sensitive to consumers’ desire to suit a variety of home environments. Well known for the 302 style Desk Phone, he later shifted his design efforts to include this wall unit allowing consumers to walk with the phone while cradling it on their shoulder. This unified and balanced form replaced the awkward and ungainly shapes of earlier models. Would you believe Dreyfuss actually used measurements from over 2000 faces to determine the distance between the average mouth and ear? The Crosley 302 Wall Phone features the nostalgic rotary dial but actually functions with push button technology. No more waiting for that rotary dial to make its excruciating slow rotation.

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You can flex your inner bear, no matter how small it may be, with these bear paw forks. You can use these bear paw forks to viciously rip apart roasted chickens, raw beef, or serve a nice quiche with some Chianti.

You’re not limited to just big hunks of pork butts. This reviewer on Amazon has some other ideas:

Woo, doggie! These would also be great as self defense tools…kind of like brass knuckles, but, presumably, legal. Spikes in the eyes, ears, throat, nads, head, etc. It should provide great “reasoning” advantage with perps. Hey, grab a pork butt or a spike a perp…what a multi-function tool, people!

Find out the real deal with this video.

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It’s made out of hand woven split willow and has room for your knives, forks, spoons, and napkins.

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Start by adding water to the bottom section. The top section will let your meal steam perfectly. The tap at the bottom is to drain the resulting broth.

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This retro-cool hot dog cooker can handle 8 regular sized wieners or 4 extra big ones. It takes about 20 minutes to go from raw to fab. This is just enough time to move from Hoarders to Intervention.

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Turn even the most banal batch of mac and cheese into a magical experience by serving it with this little macaroni and cheese fairy on the table. She’ll sprinkle your plates with that tasty fairy dust that makes your boxed food taste like the most loved dish in the world.

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Thousand Origami Cranes (千羽鶴, Senbazuru?) is a group of one thousand origami paper cranes held together by strings. An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury.

The crane in Japan is one of the mystical or holy creatures (others include the dragon and the tortoise), and is said to live for a thousand years. In Japan, it is commonly said that folding 1000 paper origami cranes makes a person’s wish come true. This makes them popular gifts for special friends and family.
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Now you can understand why this origami crane shaped soy sauce jar makes a great gift. It’s the perfect container for your sushi dinner. Made of stoneware, this jar is made to last and is dishwasher safe. It holds 3-ounce of soy sauce.

Make your own origami crane

This video shows you how to make your own origami crane

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These little ants will work hard to make sure your picnic table is not disturbed by the breezes. Just clip them to the table cloth and their weight will keep it from flapping in the wind like Aunt Melba’s arms.

If you like these little guys, you’ll love their big brother salt and pepper shakers

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Toucan the can opener

Piranha the pizza cutter

Watch your fingers around this guy!

Hang in there monkey peeler

Whale tail ice cream scooper

Birdie vegetable peeler

Angel Fish colander

Walrus crumb sweeper

Hummingbird Apple Corer

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Woodpecker Scissors

Porcupine scrubber

Bluebird Bottle Opener

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Don’t forget his buddy the trout

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